Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] it [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1940 the Tizard Mission , including J. D. Cockcroft , E. G. Bowen and R. H. Fowler , visited the Us and showed the magnetron to the authorities and to the Bell Telephone Company who got it working in a single weekend . |
| 2 | It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’ |
| 3 | There may be some who find it relaxing to make some test-tubes or cut out some filter-papers ; and apparatus to investigate previously unsuspected effects must be made from scratch , or assembled opportunistically from things designed for old purposes ; but ready availability of apparatus is an enormous bonus to the scientist , and the growth of science led to a flourishing trade . |
| 4 | Three generations of Aylings ran a respectable newspaper and I handed it over to someone who sent it plummeting down-market , used it to promote an extreme political view and was a thoroughly bad employer . ’ |
| 5 | The main bar had an alcove with more marble than Lord Elgin could have handled , and , at the northern end of Blackfriars Bridge , it was over-popular with the lunch-time City crowd who thought it daring to venture across the river . |
| 6 | Now someone took them and I do n't know who took it intending |
| 7 | It 's a lot of money and we 've got children over here who need it spending on them |